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Opheltes
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Also known as Archemorus

thumb|Death of Opheltes on a Roman sarcophagus from Corinth.

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  • Family
  • Story
  • Sources
  • Early
  • ''Hypsipyle''
  • Hyginus
  • Statius' ''Thebaid''
  • Apollodorus
  • The Heroön of Opheltes
  • Mount Opheltes
  • Notes
  • References

thumb|Death of Opheltes on a Roman sarcophagus from Corinth.

In Greek mythology, Opheltes (Ancient Greek: Ὀφέλτης), also called Archemorus (Αρχέμορος, Beginning of Doom), was a son of Lycurgus of Nemea. His mother is variously given as Eurydice, Nemea, or Amphithea. As an infant, he was killed by a serpent at Nemea. Funeral games were held in the boy's honor, and these were supposed to have been the origin of the Nemean Games.

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